#evil

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#devil #forever #hair #his #single

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good. ↗

— Hans Bender

#always #benevolent #between #concentrate #consciousness

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #justice #religion #men

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ends #evil #impossible #measure #results

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#best #big #devil #foreign #hairy

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. ↗

— Gary Busey

#develops #devil #fear #his #negatives

The face of evil is always the face of total need. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#evil #face #need #total

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way. ↗

— Tim Burton

#certain way #evil #going #kill #kiss

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme. ↗

— John Carpenter

#ancient #evil #hiding #theme #us

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. ↗

— George A. Smith

#deeds #evil #express #figure #habit